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Carita

Girls' name

Possibly love

Carita has been given to 1,087 babies in the U.S. since 1900. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1972, with 33 recorded.

Babies named Carita, 1999

1 in 738,000

Carita over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Carita: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly love

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Carita means

Carita may mean “love”, associated with caritas.

Origin, language, and formation

Carita is used in Swedish.

Carita comes through Latin caritas.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,087 girls were recorded with the name Carita between 1900 and 1999. Its highest annual count was 33 in 1972; its best national rank was #1,752 in 1900.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Carita?

Carita had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1999, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1999
1 in 738,000
5 of 3,692,373 births
Among girls only
1 in 355,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1999
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
511,873 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Carita sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1999 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 511,873 children born in 1999 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Carita. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Caritas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Carita was born before 1958 — so the typical Carita is around 67 today.

Median birth year
1958
About 67 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
20.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
24.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
691
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 20.6% of all recorded uses (224).

Is Carita rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1972 (33)
Years since peak
53
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,752
1900

Spellings of Carita

Carita is not the most common spelling — Maria is, with 27.7% against Carita's 0.05%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Carita is used

Across 1910–2025, Carita was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 580,767 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Louisiana1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Carita has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Carita around the world

Where Carita ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1999–1999
    #3,900
    in 1999
  • France
    1965–1965
    #1,790
    in 1965
  • South Australia
    1949–1993
    #712
    in 1993

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Carita by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#1,752
1900
Peak year
1972
33 that year
First recorded
1900
Last recorded
1999
All-time count
1,087
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Carita

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Carita

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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